Interim Report – February 2016 #4 (5.2.16)

On the 5th February 2016, Réseau d’Epidémio-Surveillance en Pathologie Equine (RESPE) confirmed a case of EHV-1 respiratory disease on a premises in Loir et Cher, epidemiologically linked to the EHV-1 neurological disease outbreak reported on 22nd January 2016. Positive diagnosis was confirmed by qPCR on blood by LABEO-Frank Duncombe. Ten other horses are reported to be affected.

The Animal Health Trust is a veterinary charity, based in Suffolk, which offers clinical referral services and diagnostic testing for horses, dogs and cats in East Anglia, across the UK and internationally. Through its research programmes it develops new diagnostic tests, treatments and vaccines to help thousands of animals.